Unscramble GNATS to get 44 words. GNATS itself is a real word: 6 points on a Scrabble board, 8 in Words With Friends. GNATS has 4 anagrams here, ANGST, GANTS, STANG and TANGS, scoring 6 like GNATS itself. 11 shorter words score 5, among them TAGS, SANG and TANG. The 5 letters split into 1 vowel and 4 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from GNATS by length: 5 with 5 letters, 16 with 4, 16 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Keep every letter of GNATS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with GN · ending in TS · all 5-letter words
What GNATS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept GNATS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GNATS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 44) | 35 | 44 | 31 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
9 of the 44 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: GANTS, GANS, GANT, NATS, SANT, ANS, NAS, NAT and ST. 4 of the 44 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: AGS, STAN, ATS and SAN.
Each word below uses all the letters of GNATS and one more.